Jeremías 14:3

3 Los nobles envían a sus sirvientes a buscar agua
pero los pozos están secos.
Confundidos y desesperados, los siervos regresan
con sus cántaros vacíos,
y con sus cabezas cubiertas en señal de dolor.

Jeremías 14:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 14:3

And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters,
&c.] To places where water used to be; to the pools, the upper and the lower, particularly to the fountain of Shiloah, which, Jerom says, was the only one the city of Jerusalem used. The meaning either is, that the nobles in Jerusalem sent their own children to get water for them, they having no servants to attend them, these being put away because they could not support them, the famine being so sore; or rather that they sent their menial servants, their subjects, as the Targum renders it, to fetch them a little water to refresh themselves with: they came to the pits and found no water;
their servants came according to order to the pools and cisterns, or to the deep wells, and to such places where there used to be a great confluence of water, and plenty of it, but now they could find none: they returned with their vessels empty;
just as they came: they were ashamed and confounded;
either the servants that were sent, or rather their masters that sent them, when they saw them come with their empty vessels; having been looking out and longing for their return, expecting they would have brought water with them for their refreshment; but to their great disappointment and confusion brought none: and covered their heads;
as persons ashamed, or as mourners used to do, being full of anguish and distress because of the drought.

Jeremías 14:3 In-Context

1 La terrible sequía en Judá
Jeremías recibió este mensaje del Señor
que explica por qué detuvo la lluvia:

2 «Judá desfallece;
el comercio a las puertas de la ciudad se estanca.
Todo el pueblo se sienta en el suelo porque está de luto,
y surge un gran clamor de Jerusalén.

3 Los nobles envían a sus sirvientes a buscar agua
pero los pozos están secos.
Confundidos y desesperados, los siervos regresan
con sus cántaros vacíos,
y con sus cabezas cubiertas en señal de dolor.

4 El suelo está reseco
y agrietado por falta de lluvia.
Los agricultores están profundamente angustiados;
ellos también se cubren la cabeza.

5 Aun la cierva abandona su cría
porque no hay pasto en el campo.